Reboot Alberta

About Reboot Alberta

This is a place for Pragmatic Politically Pluralist Albertans can engage and share, as Citizens, not Partisans. Our mutual concern is about the future of Alberta. We in a state of Flux with a changing economy, overwhelming ecological responsibilities, and eroding social cohesion. Now we have to step up and fix our broken political culture. It's all about taking positive action and Press for Change as, together, we strive to build a Better Alberta.

Publisher

Ken Chapman

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Nov 2020

Latest episode

12 Feb 2022

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Feb 2022

   Should We Trust Jason Kenney?

   For effective long-lasting leadership, a person has to be Known, Liked, and Trusted. The more we've gotten to know Jason Kenney, the less we like him and for sure the less we trust him. I look at the Four Levels of Declining Trust and apply them to Albertans' experience with Jason Kenney.

2. 

   1 Jan 2022

   Welcome to Reboot Alberta

   An introduction to the Reboot Alberta focus on the Power of Citizenship.  How to recognize it, use it and grow personally through Citizenship.

3. 

   8 Dec 2021

   What is the UCP Leadership Impact on Citizens?

   There is a culture war inside the UCP for who gets to lead. The Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity for Albertans is destablizing everything. Alberta's Democracy is fragile, especially now.

4. 

   26 Oct 2021

   Let's Have a Real Public Inquiry - Into Covid

   There is a lot to uncover and unfold and drag out from under the proverbial political rug when it comes to Kenney's handling of the Covid Pandemic. So far only political theatre ideas have been floated around, by the NDP or the UCP, on how to find the truth about COVID policy and processes in Alberta. We need to know what really went on in the Kenney government around Covid planning, processes, and policy decisions. No All-Party Committee or a few hours dedicated to political debate is going to get the facts, based on real evidence. We need an independent Public Inquiry to get trustworthy truths. I'm talking about a real Public Inquiry, not the politically motivated abuse of the Public Inquiry process. We don't need another farce like the Anti-Albertan foreign funding scam done under the pretense of a Public Inquiry.

5. 

   23 Oct 2021

   Elections and Reflections - Communities Reboot Local Politics

   There has been a dramatic shift in the political culture of many cities in Alberta, Especially Edmonton and Calgary. Urban Moderate and Progressive voters showed up and made a big difference. They elected a significant majority of progressive candidates to local government councils. Diversity and Inclusion seem to have risen to the top of the political values agenda. We have Mayors of colour and from minorities in both Edmonton and Calgary. And a huge success for those who organized with a goal of gender quality, especially in Edmonton. The other side of the results was the overwhelming rejection of the authoritarian and far-right candidates, many with UCP connection and alignment. There are numerous and enormous challenges facing local government in Alberta. There is a provincial government that is already hostile to municipalities. That hostility can only get worse now that their side was routed and ruined at the ballot box. So what's next for Rebooters and other Moderates? The basking has to turn into continuing political engagement. We must support those winning Moderate and Progressive candidates as Council members. Otherwise, nothing will change enough to be embedded and gains will not be achieved. So you need to Citizens Up even more now. Voting was just the start of the journey to making things better.

6. 

   1 Oct 2021

   Lessons Learned From the Federal Election

   Many have complained about the ünnecessary, expensive, and expensive" Federal election. As an Engaged Citizen with lots of concerns, I think it was a worthwhile and even timely exercise in applied democracy. We all learned some things and valuable lessons.  The Party Leaders learned they had to deal with pandemic politics and personal attacks. The Candidates learned that campaigns matter volunteers are key to winning and getting out the vote makes the difference. Citizens learned that we have power to make changes, even if that means reaffirming the Liberal Minority government. Citizenship Power is especially potent at election time.  that's when Parties and Candidates truly pay attention to you. They are after our attention and approval so the power shift from the Party-Bound MP to the Individual Citizen. We learned that apathy is boring and indifference is debilitating and together they are dangerous to a robust and sustainable democracy.

7. 

   9 Sept 2021

   It's Time for an Alberta Vaccine Passport

   Albertans are vexed and the Kenney cash-for-a-jab scheme to bribe bad faith anti-vaxxers to get vaccinated. They are not going to change their vehement and vile attitude against vaccination for a mere hundred bucks. They will believe that Kenney is desperate and that they are winning the Conservative Culture War when It comes to COVID. And they are! the Unvaccinated are clogging up our hospitals, ICUs, overwhelming our caregivers, and preventing responsible citizens from health care. They are costing taxpayers unnecessary additional health operating costs and undermining our economic recovery. Coddling with carrots must be over. Their bad-faith fabricated farce about "Freedom" is not being taken away. They can still refuse to get vaccinated but now with consequences. A comprehensive and forcefully applied Vaccination Passport will respect their choices but not allow them to add to the COVID risk to the rest of us. The rest of us have Rights too, and ours are in the Charter. It is time for Kenney to put away his Libertarian Ideology and do the right thing for a change. Consider what is best for all Albertans, not just policies that pander to the radicals in his Political Base.

8. 

   23 Aug 2021

   Schools Are Reopening. COVID is Ready. Are Schools?

   Min of Education says that starting in September students will have "...a normal school year." Normal! Really? How so as a 4th Wave of dramatically increasing COVID infections are overtaking Alberta? There is so much wrong going on here due to ideologically wilful blindspots of those responsible inside the UCP government. Parents, Students, and Teachers are Fearful Uncertain, and Doubtful. What will be the consequences of ill-advised, unsafe, and poorly executed in-person school-based learning? We will know soon. It's not likely to be good.

9. 

   22 Aug 2021

   This is Reboot Alberta

   The What and Why of Reboot Alberta. A place for Effective Informed Citizenship to help Build a Better Alberta.

10. 

    16 Aug 2021

    Thinking Inside the Box...the BALLOT BOX

    It's election time. If you what things to change, and who doesn't, it's not nearly good enough, as the old cliche goes, to merely think "outside the box." Election time is when citizens must "think inside the box...the BALLOT BOX. The ultimate focus of the power of citizenship is at election time. The people who run our political systems are never more attentive to citizens than at election time. The political power shifts from the partisans to the citizens. Your personal agency of citizenship, and your vote is the applied expression of that power. You have to think about what message you are sending when you mark your ballot and put it INSIDE THE BALLOT BOX. The Federal election is the next best opportunity to express and suggest where you want to Press for Change. Use it wisely, but use it. What is going to drive your vote? What is your Ballot Box question, issue, or concern? Will it be conveyed clearly when you vote? How do you get your intended message across in the election to the candidate, leader, and party of your choice? This podcast covers ways to think about that as well as what you are voting for and why. Don't make the mistake of thinking only about whom you will be voting for. Don't be gullible, duped, or manipulated. Make them prove they are worthy of your support and can be trusted with your consent to govern. It's a very short campaign so best get at figuring out how to apply the power of your vote.

11. 

    29 Nov 2020

    Taking Citizenship Seriously

    Citizenship. We all have it and we mostly take it for granted. We don't understand the breadth of our Rights nor the depths of our Responsibilities as Citizens. Nor do we appreciate the power of citizenship to purposefully press for change. Too many citizens avoid participation in civic life because they equate it with partisan politics. Everyone knows that is full of vile, malevolent, and abusive people who are self-centered and self-serving.. Who in their right mind would want to engage and encourage such behavior. This is especially true of those comfortable, content, complacent, and too often compliant people in the Centre of the political spectrum. There are strong ideological drivers of identity politics that define and motivate those on the Left and the Right. There are tribal instincts that give a sense of self and place and even purpose. Labels like Socialist and Capitalist define the adversarial power struggle mostly directed toward defeating the "Other." Our political culture is broken. The old ideologically binary hobbles of Left versus Right political options is oversimplistic. It is proven to be inadequate in the face of the complexity, magnitude, pace of change, and enormity of the consequences of poor political judgment on the challenges Albertans face. Citizenship, not partisanship, is the energy source available to bring forth positive, inclusive, just, and pragmatic political change. Continued insolence, arrogance, and indifference by Moderates to the responsibilities of citizenship and the duty for political engagement is not an option The admonition for the majority of Albertans, who are in the Moderate Pragmatic Center, is attributed to Edmund Burke who allegedly said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." The time has come for the majority of Albertans in the Moderate Center to become radical if we are going to repair and rebalance our political culture. We need to wake up, show up, clean up and, yes, grow up as we take up the challenge of complexity and causes. If you are ready, willing, and able to take up the challenge, Reboot Alberta is a place for you.

12. 

    19 Nov 2020

    Citizenship Before Partisanship in Building a Better Alberta.

    What is the difference between Citizenship or Partisanship in political culture? Is there something better than the Left versus Right zero-sum gamesmanship of contemporary party politics? Can caring compassionate empathetic citizenship become more engaged, or even dominant, in deciding new directions and better destinations for the Next Alberta? I find guidance and insight in exploring this question in a famous quote by Martin Luther King Jr  He said: "Power without Love is reckless and abusive. Love without Power is sentimental and anemic. " Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love." Are you ready for the next step of Engaged Citizenship?  Start by joining the Reboot Alberta Facebook Group and subscribe to the website at Rebootalberta.com

13. 

    18 Nov 2020

    Reboot Alberta (Trailer)

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